Left Over Garage Sale Humor

My parents have moved into their new home so it became the perfect opportunity for a garage/moving sale.  Four of us participated, joining forces on the endeavor over the past weekend.  We started the sale at 8:00 am Saturday.  By 9:30 am, more than half of our inventory was gone...to one person.  Yes, you read that correctly.  One woman bought half of the items we had for sale.  She had two huge piles going, one in the garage, the other in the driveway that we had to keep running people away from!  It was the craziest thing I have ever seen happen at a garage sale.  (I learned later that morning that the next door neighbor kept sticking items in her pile that he just wanted to get rid of and didn't charge her a penny for hauling them off!)

Speed forward an hour when a customer that had bought some items earlier and was given change back returned to our humble little sale reporting that we had given her a counterfeit $10 bill.  As we had started the sale with only $5's and $1's in stock, we knew that someone had given us the $10 bill for their purchase.  The newspaper has been reporting on a counterfeit ring in town and urged everyone to call the police if they encountered fake $10 bills.  So yes, we called the Sheriff's office to report the crime.  We did remember the person(s) we believed to have been responsible.  The scariest part to that scenario was that one of the two women asked to use the restroom and was granted access to the house.  Luckily, the house was empty so their was nothing to steal inside.  I can't begin to imagine what might have gone missing otherwise. 

Warning Warning Will Robinson!  The moral to this little story is not to let anyone you don't know use your bathroom.  You just can't trust people to do the right thing. 

On another note, do you know how to slow down/shut off customer sales at a garage sale?  Yup - you have a Sheriff's car parked right in front of your house!  It pretty much closed down any further sales for the day.  We ended up closing early only to open again Sunday morning.  After three hours of sitting around a square card table sharing stories and having only one customer, we closed up shop for good.  We had a good time, laughed a lot, made some new memories and opened up room in our homes for more junk collection!  It will probably be another decade before we assemble another sale which will probably be too soon for me!